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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1891)
THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1891. 2 ISSUED EVKRT FRIDAY HOR.MNO BT S'lt-A-HTK CONOVEE. SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 Per Year, $2 00 Six Months 1 00 Three Months 75 Single Copies 5c Par Tear (when not paid in' advance). 2 50 CORVALLIS. There is a calm after a storm, and experience teaches us that there is a hush after a boom. In parts of California there are many people who wish the country had been struck by a bomb instead of a boom. They are the ones, of eourse, who are left with the high priced property with no purchas ers. The same may be said of the Sound and other portions of Wash ington. They are the people who are loudest in their declamation of hard times. Booms in general are not desirable, although very many wish to see them and take their chances of getting away from them before the explosion comes. In Oregon we have had no reg ular boom, but exchange in city and suburban property in this state became quite rapid and the speculative instinct of our people ran pretty high two years ago, whereas, now, sales are compara tively slow. Few persons, however, paid more for property than the growth ot the country will shortly make good. It is noticeable that towns in which property ranged highest are the ones from which eoraplaints are now most heard, Tvhere public and private enterprise is most unfavorably affected. Dur ing the time when the speculative spirit was at its height in this state Corvallis, while it was growing steadily, was thought to be scarce ly in the march of improvement. The conservative course proved the better one for the whole people, as Clorvallis is steadily growingand the majority of our citizens are quite well satisfied with the present con dition of affairs here. There have been temptations to boom Corval lis to some extent but the people of this locality have confined their extorts to such improvements as were demanded by the develop ment of the country. During the past three years the public and private improvements of this city are, on the whole, very creditable to the enterprise of her citizens, and our progress is not now re tarded. This city is moving along at the same rate at which it was proceeding during what is known as the better times throughout the state. New public and private buildings and manufactories are going up in different parts of the city and it is necessary to employ carpenters and other tradesmen from neighboring towns. There is much to lead to the assurance that of the Oregon towns, Corval lis will, in the near future, become a city ' second in importance only to Portland. Our foreign trade still continues to increase with the balance of trade in our favor, and yet the Free-Traders tell us that "if we don't buy we can't sell,"' and that the McKinley bill will shut out all foreign trade. Read a Free-Trade statement and then believe the op posite always. Twenty-five years ago the idea of producing silks in this country was laughed at; to-day we are one of the largnst manufacturers of silk goods in the world, and the prices are about one-half what they were and the goods them selves much better. The failures of the year 1857, after 10 years of Free Trade, ex ceeded those of 1890, after 30 years of protection, by $2,000,000, although the amount of capital in vested ... then was not more than one-third what it is now. Subsidies are paid annually to amount of $3,000,000 by England, $2,000,000 by France, $1,500,000 by Germany, $2,000,000 by Italy, 2,500,000 by Spain and more or less by every nation having a merchant marine. PORTLAND AND COAST HARBORS". Portland, with proper enterprise, ought to be able to take care of itself. It is the extreme of a nar row, selfish, and in the end an in jurious policy, for Portland to op pose needed and important im provement in other localities, for fear of losing, a little trade. Portland, in conjunction with the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany, pursued that policy for years with reference to the Inland Em pire. But the Northern Pacific and the Hunt lines were built, and its negative, selfish, penny-wise and pound-foolish policy is illus trated in our loss of the wheat and flour of the upper country. That we will largely regain by an open river, but no other way. There may be now, from similar motives and in in pursuance of the same sort of policy, a disposition to rejoice in the evident efforts to injure ana suppress laquinaana Siuslaw as Pacific coast harbors, for fear a little of the Upper Wil- amette valley trade may be di verted from Portland to those points. This course would not only be selfishly wrong, but in the end futile, and dangerous to Port land. This city ought to give at least moral support and encourage ment to every such place, to all parts of Oregon. In this way we will gain immensely more than we will lose. Narrow selfishnes never paid on earth yet, in the long run. Let Siuslaw be improved and made a harbor; let Yaquina be im proved and made a harbor; let Coos bay be improved and made a harbor; let railroads be built to all of them, if there is enterprise and capacity to build them. By these means Portland may indeed lose a little of the trade that is now forced to come here; but the up building, the development, the growth of the country will be such that we are sure to gain infinitely more than we lose. We have no sympathy with the narrow, selfish spirit that tries to grow and prosper by keeping other places and people down. Tele- A franchise has been granted by Kansas City to a company to build works and lay mains in the streets to supply fresh air to the inhabitants. In warm weather cold air will be supplied; in cold weather, hot air. That is they pro pose to keep the houses of their patrons as nearly at one tempera ture as possible, winter and sum mer. Apparatus for such a pur pose will without doubt be gener ally adopted in a short time. While the climate in this state does not render its usefulness so apparent as in other states, our politicians will not be slow in adopting any improved methods for "blowing hot or cold." Oregon farmers now generally concede, having investigated the matter thoroughly, that no branch of soil tillage pays so well and so regularly as the cultivation of fruits. The boundaries of this state embrace a grand fruit coun try, which in time will become fa mous for its excellent horticultural preducts in immense quantities. Through this agency Oregon farm ers may easily pay off their mort- iges" and henceforth laugh at usurists. Sunday Mercury. Our population is 5 per cent, .or one-twentieth the population of the globe. We consume 33 per cent, or one-third of all produced. Why should we give up this mar ket to foreigners? Why should we not manufacture for ourselves? The gates of all our ports still open inward, and with proper dis crimination against undesirable immigration our home market will grow larger every year. We are a uation of high wages and large consumers, and a protective tariff will keep up such. Of the 40,000 hands in the jute mills of Dundee, Scotland, 17,000 belong to families whose homes are single rooms. PENSIONS AND PATRIOTISM. In brief, but not the less effec tive article in the North American Review, the Hon. Green B. Raum, United estates Commissioner of Pensions, shows in a clear and un mistakeable way how closely pen sions and patriotism are united. The clamor against what is called the excessive amounts paid out in pensions, is answered conclusively by pointing out that the tax upon the country to support the veter ans is a trifle when compared with that which was borne to pay off those who loaned money to the Government during the war. The bond-holders have received in in terest and premiums since July 1st, 1861, $2,600,179,000 and the pensioners nave received only $1,284,717,000. Moreover when the war closed and the people were confronted with the task ot pay ing the bond-holders, the public debt amounted to one-tenth of the wealth of the country. It now amounts to only one-fiftieth. In 1865, the annual charge for inter est on bonds and pensions was $4.57 per capita, and now it is only $2.44 per capita. Surely then it would seem that if the men of 1865 had the patriotism to carry such an interest charge with so great a debt without murmuring, we ought now with our increased population and diminished debt, to be able to carry the much lighter burden which the care of the defenders of the Union im poses upon us. Above the money consideration, however, will be the appeal to the patriotism of the people to stand loyally by those men who have preserved the Union to be a blessing not only for the men of this generation, but for those who are to come after us for all time. Any intelligent man who will consider the long marches by day and the shelterless beds by night of those who through the heats of summer and the severities ot winter carried the flag of the Union, must know that the men who endured these things could not have come out of the service with unimpaired vitality, and that therefore in the weakness or disa bility of the old age that is now coining upon them, they deserve every care which the great and rich Republic can give them. A pension is no charity. It is the just reward of honorable service. It was won by patriotism to con fer it. The big cannery and the big fair will bring a half a million dollars to Salem this year says the States- mi an. The Salem Journal says a Kaiser bottom man has learned to roll old stumps into his hop yard with red ant's nests in them. The red ant exterminates the hop louse. BAD ECZEMA ON BABY Head one Solid Sore. Itching; Awful. Had to Tie His Hands to Cradle. Cured by Cnticnaa. 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AND RESTAURANT, August Schloeman, Prop., Meals at all hours. Fresh Bread Every Morning Delivered Free before Breakfast. I BAKEDILY The following varieties: American Home Made, German Milk Bread, French and Rye Breaa, also fresh cakes, pies, buns, etc. Wedding &Fancy a lies A Specialty. Special attention paid to orders from abroad. 5:2-m3 sell so many Stoves? Are! VALISES, J .AJSTD . L. Klinev The White House, Corvallis, Or. HPlIDITC Coughs, Colds, Influent, BrewAMs, IfUllLO Hoarseness, Whooping Cough, CMop, Sore Throat, Asthma, and every affection of the throat, Lang and Chost, including Consumption. Speedy and permanent. Gmuinc signed ' I. Butt." A. HODES, PROPRIETOR OF THE ConvALus Baked? And Dealer in Choice Staple and Fancy Groceries. PURE f 1MESMD LIQEQRS. Fresh Bread, Cakes, Pies, Crackers, Itc. , kept constantly on hand. Corvallis, Oregon. EAST AND SOUTH VIA Southern pacific Routk Shasta Line. Express Trains Leave Portland Daily. south. Lv Portland .... 7:00 p. m. Lv Albany 10:23 p. ni, Ar San Frisco 8:lfta.m. NORTH Lv San Frisco 9:00 p i Lv Albanv. K-99 Above trains stop only at following staii.ms north of Koseburgr, East Portland, Oregon City, Wood burn, Salem, Albany, Tangent, Shedds, Halsey, Har nsburg, Junction City, Irving, Eugeae. -ir rortiana a a Roseburg Mail Daily. Lv Portland 8:00 a. m Lv Alhanv w LvRoeebnrg. . . .6:20 a. n Lv Albfffiy 12:00 m Ar Roeeburg 6:40 p in Ar Portland 4:0 p IP Albany Local Daily Except Sunday. arritb: Portland 5:00 p. m. Albany 9 00 p. i Albany 5:00 a. m. Portland :00 a. i Lebanon Branch. 2:3S pm...Lv. 3:25pm..Ar.. 7:30am..Lv.. 8:22a m..Ar.. .Albany. . Lebanon. . .Albany... . Lebanon . . .. Ar. ..925 p n . Lv... 8.-40 p m Ar...4:28 pm .Lv ...3:40 p m Pullman Buffett Sleepers;- TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-class passengers, attached to Express Trains. Wist Silt Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALU. Hail Irate. Daily Zicrpt Sua day. LF.AVll. I ARR1VR. Portland 7:30a. m. i Corvsllis 12:10 n. a Corvallis 12:65 p.m. Portland 6:30 u. m At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of 1 Oreon Pacific Itailruad. Iipross Train. Sail; Except Sunday. LRaVB. Portland 4:40 p. m. McMinnville. ... 5:45 a. m. AKR1VK. McMinnville... 7:25 p. Portland 8:20 a. THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and East. For tickets and full information regarding rates, maps etc., call on company's agent at Uorvallis. E. P ROGERS, Asst. O. F. &P. Agent. B. KOEHLERJUanarer. THE Yaquina Route Oregon Pacific Ra ilroad T. E. Hogg, Receiver, and Oregon Development Co.'s STEAMSHIP LINE. 235 Miles Shorter; 20 Hours Less time than by any other route. First class through passenger and freight line from Portland all points in the Willamette valley to and from San Francisco, CaL TIME 3CHEDULE (except Sundays.) Leaves Albany 1:00 p. m I Leaves Yaquina6:46 a. m Leave Covallisl:40 V o. Leave Corvallis 10:35 Arrive Yaauina 5:30 p. m Arrive Albany 11:10 a. m. Oregon & California trains connect at Albany and Corvallis. The above trains connect at Yaquina witb the Oregon Development Co.'a line of steamships be tween Yaquina and San Francisco. Frm Yaquina. Steamship ."Willamette Valley," Aug. 4th, 13th, 22nd, 31st. Frm oSan Francis C. Steamship "Willamette Valley," July 31st, Aug. 9th, 18th, 26th. This Company reserves the right to chang sailing dates without notico. N. B. Passengers from Portland and all Willamette valley points can make close connection wfth the trains of the Yaquina route at Albany or Corvallis, and if destined to San Francisco should arrange to arrive at Yaquina the evening before date of sailing. Passenger and freight rates always the lowest. For information apply to D. W. Cummins, freight and ticket agent, Corval lis, or to C. C. HOGUE, . Gen. F. and P. Agent, Oregon Pa cific Railroad Co., Corvallis, Or. W. B. WEBSTER. Gen. F. and P. Agent, Oregon Develop ment Co., 304 Montgomery St., S. F., Cal. Main St., Op. 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